Friday, February 8, 2008

final NIST Reports

Here's the link:

http://wtc.nist.gov/reports_october05.htm

And here's the overview:
NIST NCSTAR 1: Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster: Final Report of the National Construction Safety Team on the Collapses of the World Trade Center Tower

NIST NCSTAR 1-1: Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Structural and Life Safety Systems

NIST NCSTAR 1-2: Baseline Structural Performance and Aircraft Impact Damage Analysis of the World Trade Center Towers

NIST NCSTAR 1-3: Mechanical and Metallurgical Analysis of Structural Steel

NIST NCSTAR 1-4: Active Fire Protection Systems

NIST NCSTAR 1-5: Reconstruction of the Fires in the World Trade Center Towers

NIST NCSTAR 1-6: Structural Fire Response and Probable Collapse Sequence of the World Trade Center Towers

NIST NCSTAR 1-7: Occupant Behavior, Egress, and Emergency Communication

NIST NCSTAR 1-8: The Emergency Response Operations

1 comment:

Matt Schwarzfeld, Freelance writer. said...

Thanks for tracking it down Andrea, really helpful. (You read all 10,000 pages yet ;)

Here's a good, and I think important, NYT piece run shortly after NIST findings were published on why Com. Lancaster, and building owners, reject some of its findings.